Sponsored by
The Association of Central Eurasian Students
The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Papers in all regions and disciplines of Central Eurasian Studies will be presented by graduate students and scholars from around the world.
There are some new and different features in this year's conference schedule:
Dr. Peter B. Golden of Rutgers University will deliver the inaugural Central Eurasian Studies Lecture on "Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and State Formation in Medieval Turkic Eurasia."
The Central Eurasian Studies Conference is being held in conjunction with the 40th Anniversary Members' Meeting of the Mongolia Society. Panels for the two conferences will follow a combined schedule; check this site later for more information on the Mongolia Society panels, lectures, and social and cultural events which conference participants are invited to attend.
There will be a book display and sale hosted by the IU Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, the Mongolia Society, and IU Turkish Studies Publications, and featuring outside vendors.
Please email aces@indiana.edu for more information or check back on this page. To contact us by phone, call (812) 855-9510 or fax us at (812) 855-7500.
Transportation:
Driving directions:
Parking:
The closest FREE parking is in the Atwater parking structure, on Atwater (one way eastbound) and Faculty Streets.
Walking directions from Atwater:
Walk north on Faculty to Third Street. You will be looking at a big building directly across the street, Jordan Hall. Ballantine is directly behind Jordan. It's probably easiest to go around Jordan to the left. You will thus enter Ballantine on the first floor, so you'll need to go down one floor (walk to the middle of the building to do so) to find us. If you go around Jordan to the right, following the little road behind the greenhouse, you'll enter through a semi-covered parking lot, go about 50 feet, and go in the double doors there (they'll be on your left). That will bring you in on the floor we'll be on. Walk in the double doors, take the first right, walk past the globe, and you'll probably see us milling around.
Ballantine is the tallest classroom building on campus; we are on the ground floor.
PAID Parking:
The parking lot at the Indiana Memorial Union, on 7th street between Forrest and Woodlawn. I'm not sure how much it costs, but I know it costs something. Ballantine from there is past the Union on Forrest. (The Union is tall, but Ballantine is taller.)
There is parking along the side of Ballantine (easiest to enter from 3rd Street, turning right at the light at Hawthorne) but this requires an "A" or "E" and above for the weekend. Parking Operations warns that your car might be ticketed if it parked in that lot without the appropriate sticker.
FLYING:
The closest airport to Bloomington is Indianapolis http://www.indianapolisairport.com/. There is a shuttle which leaves the airport every two hours from the "Ground Transportation" area. Take the shuttle to the Indiana Memorial Union (for the University) or to one of the hotels on its route. For more information on ground transportation, you can check the University's web site at http://www.indiana.edu/~iuadmit/plane.html. Bloomington maintains a site with general information including maps and mileages from various places at http://www.visitbloomington.com/trans.html.
The next closest airport is in Louisville, Kentucky. You can check the web site for the airport at: http://www.louintlairport.com/.
Lodging:
Local hotels are:
Ramada Inn, 2601 North Walnut, Bloomington, IN 47402
(812) 332-9453, fax (812) 333-1303
Eigenmann Hall, the graduate dorm, is also reasonably priced.
10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47406
(812) 855-8581, 855-5601 (housing information)
They also maintain a web site at http://www.rps.indiana.edu/
Indiana Memorial Union has its own web site at: http://www.indiana.edu/~imupromo/. They can provide high-quality lodging within easy walking distance of any activity on campus.
more info:http://www.geocities.com/~bloomingguide/